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In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There’s Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs–aka “jackrubs”–to his co-workers.

On a Sunday, one of them is called at home. And the Firings begin.Rich with Orwellian doublespeak, filled with sabotage and romance, this astonishing literary debut is at once a comic delight and a narrative tour de force. It’s a novel for anyone who has ever worked in an office and wondered: “Where does the time go? Where does the life go? And whose banana is in the fridge?”

Praise for PERSONAL DAYS"Witty and appealing...Anyone who has ever groaned to hear 'impact' used as a verb will cheer as Park skewers the avatars of corporate speak, hellbent on debasing the language....Park has written what one of his characters calls 'a layoff narrative' for our times. As the economy continues its free fall, Park's book may serve as a handy guide for navigating unemployment and uncertainty. Does anyone who isn't a journalist think there can't be two books on the same subject at the same time? We need as many as we can get right now." —The New York Times Book Review

"Never have the minutiae of office life been so lovingly cataloged and collated." —"Three First Novels that Just Might Last," —Time

A "comic and creepy début...Park transforms the banal into the eerie, rendering ominous the familiar request "Does anyone want anything from the outside world?" —The New Yorker"The modern corporate office is to Ed Park's debut novel Personal Days what World War II was to Joseph Heller's Catch-22—a theater of absurdity and injustice so profound as to defy all reason....Park may be in line to fill the shoes left by Kurt Vonnegut and other satirists par excellence."—Samantha Dunn,Los Angeles Times

"I laughed until they put me in a mental hospital. But Personal Days is so much more than satire. Underneath Park's masterly portrait of wasted workaday lives is a pulsating heart, and an odd, buoyant hope." — Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

"The funniest book I've read about the way we work now." –William Poundstone, author of Fortune's Formula

"Ed Park joins Andy Warhol and Don DeLillo as a master of the deadpan vernacular." —Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai

The book held potential, yet I hard time to relate to the characters, most of them lacked solid backstory, or story at all.The book is often compared to "then we came to the end" and i think "then we came" is by far the better book if you are looking for books in this genre.

This was probably one of the most unique books I've ever read. It definitly had it highs and lows. There were many humours moments, and the author tied the characters together well. Working in an office myself, there were many instances in which I could relate to the story.

However, the story seemed to be a large amount of very short stories about the same people. Initally, it's hard to find the direction of this novel. I read this book for a book club, and would not have finished it if it weren't for wanting to discuss it fully.

This starts out as a slice of life in the modern cubical, with some amusing typographical self-references along the way. Just as one begins to tire of the gimmick, a paranoiac plot emerges that feeds all ones worst fears about corporate life in the big city. Nothing major here, but an amusing read if your taste runs this way.

There was never a point where the book grabbed me. It will definitely make you chuckle a few times..

It's not really a narrative from start to finish.. instead it's more like short anecdotes taken from scenes inside an office building. Someone else mentioned that it's like a mix of The Office and Office Space.. which is spot-on; however, nowhere near as clever or funny.

I was all set to love this book. It was witty, amusing and outright funny in parts, but tiresome at about the 1/2 mark. Thankfully the last 1/3 picked up a bit and I soldiered on to the end. Don't love it, don't hate it...a few hours of amusing entertainment.